The train on September 15 is being organised by the East Lancashire Railway to assist in raising funds for the purchase of steam locomotive City of Wells, which is being bought as the railway continues to develop and grow its steam locomotive fleet.

The train will be steam hauled throughout the ELR’s Bury Bolton Street Station.

The Flying Scotsman in Prestatyn (Image: Robert Parry-Jones)

After picking up passengers at Manchester Victoria, Newton-Le-Willows and Warrington, this train will make its way at speed along the North Wales mainline to Llandudno Junction where it will stop for water at 11.30am before continuing to Holyhead, arriving at 12.45pm for a two-hour break.

Travellers also have the option to leave the train at Llandudno Junction and coaches will be waiting to take travellers direct into Llandudno for a four hour break.

The engine, designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, was built by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) in 1923 and was used on the daily rail service between London and Edinburgh.

Its appearance at the British Empire Exhibition in London made Flying Scotsman famous, and it went on to feature in many more publicity events for the LNER.

In 1928, a new type of tender with a connecting corridor to the rest of the train allowed it to haul the first ever non-stop London to Edinburgh service reducing the journey time to eight hours.

In 1934, Scotsman was clocked at 100mph on a special test run – officially the first locomotive in the UK to have reached that speed.

The engine was retired from service in 1963. After being bought and restored by businessman Alan Pegler, who was instrumental in rescuing the Ffestiniog Railway in the early 1950s, the engine toured the USA. It was later bought by Sir Bill McAlpine, another leading member of the Ffestiniog Railway, and run extensively on the main line.

The Flying Scotsman was bought for the nation in 2004 through public donations and grants and has undergone an extensive restoration before returning to operation in 2016.